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      The violence of frenzy
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      The sound of roots
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      Summer’s lease
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      Deep Roots
    • Hope and Expectation
      Hope and Expectation
    • No Trespassing
      No Trespassing
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    • Upcoming
    • Volume 1
      • 0.1 Intro
      • 1.1 Margins
      • 1.2 Living with the Seasons
      • 1.3 Thriftiness
      • 1.4 Noise and Silence
      • 1.5 Bodies
      • 1.6 Transportation
      • 1.7 Waterways
      • 1.8 My Economy
      • 1.9 Sharing Food
      • 1.10 Coming and Going
    • 2.1 Labor
    • 2.2 Bridges
    • 2.3 Shops & Stores
    • 2.4 The Darkest Night
    • 2.5 Sabbath
    • 2.6 Local Government
    • 2.7 Solastalgia
    • 2.8 Borders & Boundaries
    • 2.9 Play

Amie Adams

Amie Adams is a graduate of Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa, where she completed a Writing & Rhetoric major along with a Religion minor. She enjoys nature writing and is especially interested in the intersection of spirituality and place. As a proud Iowa native, she loves sharing stories about the hidden pockets of beauty amidst the farm fields.

The island
EssayJuly 5, 2017

The island

By Amie Adams

As I dip my paddle into the still water and pull, the kayak slides forward in a fluid motion across the vibrant blue surface…

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About Topology

Topology Magazine

Topology Magazine is a place for active contemplation through prose, poetry, and art: the produce of thoughtful labor in the places where we find ourselves. Each person is inextricably tied to their physical location, and Topology cultivates that connection by publishing work which explicitly or implicitly recognizes the influence of place. Read more …

Contributors

  • Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma
  • Deborah Haak
  • Henry Bakker
  • Elisabeth Wenger
  • Rob Vander Giessen-Reitsma
  • S. Alexandra Harper
  • mt
  • the daily asterisk
  • Marjorie Maddox
  • Alex Joyner
  • Katie Hoogendam
  • Karissa Knox Sorrell
  • Alex Quick
  • William Overbeeke
  • Amy Carpenter-Leugs
  • Laura Menze
  • Naomi Wenger
  • Bethany Beachum
  • Tom Springer
  • Brett Beasley
  • Name Withheld
  • Deborah Lewis
  • Carol Stephen
  • Kathryn T. Jones
  • Aline Lindemann
  • Raechelle Kennedy
  • Bill Boerman-Cornell
  • Scott Peterson
  • Uche Ogbuji
  • Brother Abraham Newsom
  • Lisa Witz
  • Elisabeth McClanahan
  • Robert Andy Coombs
  • Neil E. Das
  • Gail Heffner
  • Luke Johnston
  • Alek Frost
  • Ian Randall Wilson
  • John Pierce
  • Sylvia Keesmaat
  • Chris Bullard
  • Katie Karnehm-Esh
  • Denise Frame Harlan
  • A. Non
  • Jeff Gundy
  • Randy Smit
  • Monica Sharman
  • J.C. Elkin
  • Christine Darragh
  • David Stewart
  • Joy Riggs
  • Amy Nemecek
  • John Davis Jr.
  • Ingrid Lochamire
  • Nora Kirkham
  • Peter Freedman-Doan
  • Julie Keefer
  • Rick Kempa
  • Kendra Stanton Lee
  • Christopher Smit
  • Amanda Hiland
  • Sara Sterley
  • Lynne S. Viti
  • Larry Kamphausen
  • Devon Balwit
  • Travis Poling
  • Jennifer Crow
  • Valerie Bacharach
  • Jacob Miller
  • Jeff Santosuosso
  • Thomas Swann
  • Gail Walters
  • Robert Peace Jordan
  • D.S. Leiter
  • Paul Douglas McNeill II
  • Daniel Silliman
  • Matt Prater
  • Lee Hull Moses
  • Deborah Bowen
  • Christie Walkuski
  • Amy Oestreicher
  • Laura Fabrycky
  • Lynn White
  • Carolyn Adams
  • Jill McDonough
  • Rachel Marie Stone
  • Amelia Rhodes
  • Lindsy Wallace
  • Donald Illich
  • Ched Myers
  • Nate Maxson
  • Heather Hutchison
  • Kathy Fenton-Miller
  • Jacque Rowe Fields
  • Lorraine Caputo
  • Larry-Michael Hackenberg
  • Jeff Burt
  • Daniel Roy Connelly
  • Sam Gesch
  • Lauren Wayne
  • Eileen R. Kinch
  • Christopher Smith
  • Catherine Woodiwiss
  • Andy Rogers
  • Shawndra Miller
  • Hannah Thyberg
  • Jennifer Hernandez
  • Katie Reich
  • Michael Penny
  • June Mears Driedger
  • Kenneth Arthur
  • Jennifer Martelli
  • Claire Ibarra
  • Nicole Carlin
  • Alexa Shearer
  • Danielle Germaine
  • Nathan Van Hoff
  • Nina Bannett
  • Marylu Dykstra
  • Heidi Fettig Parton
  • Lea Page
  • Mary Ann Honaker
  • Mike Wilson
  • Joel Schueler
  • Gwen DiPietro
  • Ruth Asher
  • Wm. Anthony Connolly
  • Matthew Deames
  • Elisavietta Ritchie
  • Joy-Elizabeth Lawrence
  • Erin O'Connor-Garcia
  • Sophie Blanc
  • Cat Dixon
  • Geneva Langeland
  • Nate Al Attas-Bradford
  • Kierstan Barbre
  • Clinton Inman
  • Stefanie Möser Zitö
  • Ann Klotz
  • Tamra Carraher
  • Joyce H. Munro
  • Gary Guthrie
  • Brandon Marlon
  • Chris Fuller
  • Amy Hetletvedt
  • Samuel J. Fox
  • Griffin Paul Jackson
  • Celine B. Roque
  • Kurt Armstrong
  • Vincent A. Cellucci
  • John Yohe
  • Denise Vredevoogd
  • Erica Schemper
  • Jerry Berrigan
  • Nathaniel Harper-Brees
  • Stephanie Nikolopoulos
  • Mark Andrew Heathcote
  • Aaron Nell
  • Kate Bowman-Johnston
  • Debra Dieppa
  • Katie Rendon Kahn
  • Ben Brazil
  • Hardeep Sabharwal
  • Kendall Vanderslice
  • Mike Finley
  • Jim Schmotzer
  • Karen Fitz La Barge
  • Kristina England
  • Zach Bartz
  • Grant Elgersma
  • Amanda Cleary Eastep
  • Emily Ulmer
  • Jennifer Monroe
  • Katie Houston
  • Josh MacIvor-Andersen
  • L. L. Barkat
  • Matthew Landrum
  • Amie Adams
  • Jeremy Huggins
  • Barbara Ruth
  • Jacqueline Ristola
  • Alan Van Wyk
  • Rebecca Wolff
  • Michael Knowles
  • Robert Stout
  • Jeffrey Allen Mays
  • Rob Testing

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